"CWO4 Dave Mann" wrote in message
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Andrew Chaplin wrote:
"CWO4 Dave Mann" wrote in message
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Andrew Chaplin wrote:
"Jacques & Laurie" wrote in message
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Xcuse me! . . .

Did you also know that CFB Bagotville was also referred to as "BAG
Town"?
I
have come to know it as such because every service man that I knew in
Canada
called it as such. Endearing term, if you wish . . .

As far as I was concerned, I served with the "Air Force" in Canada
(1972-1977) even though WE all wore GREEN. Remember those days?

Jacques
(former corporal, CANADIAN AIR FORCE)
I first joined a unit that is widely known in Ottawa and The Royal
Regiment
of
Canadian Artillery as the "Bytown Gunners," but widespread usage does not
in
any way make the name official.

It is fine to use colloquialisms like "Air Force" in places where they
will
not confuse. You are, however, posting to an international forum where
not
everyone is au fait with the National Defence Re-organization Act, 1967,
its
disestablishment of the navy, army and air force as services in Canada,
and
its establishment of the single service with "forces" (regular, reserve
and
special) as the basis for managing personnel establishments.

Ah yes, I remember Bag Town ... when I was with the 10th Mountain
Division (ages ago), we went on maneuvers with some Canadian Army unit
(can't recall but believe they were also mountain, snow troops). They
ran us into the freeking ground on cross country ski exercises. They
all must have been born on skis.

Great bunch of guys, however and the NCO club at Bag Town Base was one
rocking joint just like the one in Baden Baden, GE ...

Oh Canada!

Are you sure that wasn't Canadian Forces Base Gagetown (AKA "Gag Town,"
"Gage-Nam" and "Camp Swamp-on-the-Hilltops")? There are not many ground
manoeuvre areas around Bagotville, and the Combat Training Centre (our
"Centre
of Excrements") is in New Brunswick, along with the tac hel training mob.

By necessity, all Canadian regular units in the field force are "snow
troops."
Winter warfare exercises are an annual qualification, usually done in late
January when the weather is dependably cold. While we may train "off the
reservation" in spring, summer and autumn, winter training is almost always
done on DND land because it is too hard to clean up the brass and pyro
afterward.


Well which base is right north of Fort Drum. seems to me we did a road
march with vehicles and the border inspectors on the Canadian side
remarked that the last time this has happened was the war of 1812 or
something like that.

Anyway, a great time was had by all, to be sure!

The base north of Fort Drum is Petawawa.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...e=UTF8&t=h&z=7

From 1977 to 1996 or so, it was home to the Canadian Airborne Regiment, which
had an intervention task in the event of encroachments in the Arctic
Archipelago and which was trained in mountain warfare. Since that regiment's
disbandment, 1st and 3rd Battalions, The Royal Canadian Regiment, are
stationed there. Right now, however, they are making free on McGregor Range
north of Fort Bliss: http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_8276618.
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Andrew Chaplin
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